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ESPN sees high World Cup TV ratings
Written by Travis Duncan    Monday, June 14 2010 17:27    PDF Print E-mail

ESPN announced Monday, that its coverage of the 2010 World Cup, has drawn between 75 and 80-percent higher ratings than comparable coverage during the 2006 World Cup.

No doubt the buzz for the World Cup is at an all-time high in the United States.

Through eight matches, ESPN and ABC are averaging 3,000,000 households and 4,247,000 viewers, versus the first eight games of the 2006 World Cup (1,718,000 households and 2,363,000 viewers in '06).

Saturday's long-awaited match between the U.S. and England drew 12.9 million viewers and was the most watched U.S. Men's National team game since 1994.

The network says that an additional 1.3 million people have watched a game on ESPN3.com.

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-1 #11 Bernie 2010-06-21 23:07
American sportscasters think that there is lingo for soccer, but there's not. They simply borrow words from British English instead of using the standard American English terms. For instance, in the UK they say "draw" for what we call a tie. They say "side" for what we call "team." They say "pace" for speed. Zero or nothing ecomes nil in British English and we have used that too. And it just goes on and on. I love the sport, but let's call a tie a tie and not a draw. Let's call a team a team and not a "side." These pretentious American announcers don't understand that in England if a sports announcer is saying that the Red Sox beat the Yankees 1-0, he is saying the Red Sox beat the Yankees one to nil. It has nothing to do with the sport, but the fac t that these terms are simply UK terms. so, please stop preentiously misappropriatin g UK words in English because you think it sounds cool. Make it more American and maybe you'll see more interest.
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-14 #10 john Rutter 2010-06-17 20:48
Soccer is still and always will be a secondary sport ion the US. Real sports draw the ratings....there is no comparison between football and soccer.
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+1 #9 Jeff 2010-06-16 14:38
This is good news. The USA-England World Cup match has drawn higher ratings than the NBA finals first 4 games.
The funny thing about soccer in USA is that it has always been popular but because it is perceived as some lesser sport or less athletic but it is quite the opposite.
Even in 1999 the USA womens world cup final match drew about 18 million.
We just need some very good american announcers that have great knowledge of world football.
GO USA!!!
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0 #8 omie 2010-06-16 12:51
Soccer fans go to each others houses or bars and watch the games. There are like 20 people in room screaming and yelling unlike Joe the plumber who's sitting alone in his underwear drinking a bear wishing the white guy would would make a basket....
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-1 #7 Julio F. Thompson 2010-06-16 11:25
how can you watch it in english? it's so boring! you need to watch it on a spanish channel, even you don't understand it's 100x more interesting.
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-10 #6 Lucas 2010-06-16 10:05
But the ratings were still lower than any game in the NBA finals.
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+1 #5 American Pie 2010-06-16 08:53
Kaya - have you watched a match commentated by American's? DP Delewhowho and the like? It's awful. Get some meaningful american commentary and I'm game. Otherwise, let's free our minds and learn something about the game, even if it hurts.

Born and bred right white & blue.
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+2 #4 JKP 2010-06-15 23:56
they speak english in ireland and england chief...in case you didn't know. anyone want to hear alexi lalas or bob costas call a soccer match? nope.
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-11 #3 Kaya 2010-06-15 14:51
Now we have excellent American players and very interested fans. I hope some day ABC and ESPN will assign English (American) speaking commentators. I feel like I am watching a foreign channel.
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+3 #2 Julio E. Thompson 2010-06-14 22:41
Amazing!
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